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I am planning to check on everything I promised everyone I would check on However I moved out of the hotel into an apartment Friday and have been at Costco and Ikea (hours and hours at Ikea) and have been assembling furniture and looking for stuff I need until my stuff comes from NY (in about a month). When I was in Rochester, I could walk into Home Depot and Sam's Club and Lowes and find just what I needed, but the stores out here are WACKED. Seriously. I can't find anything anywhere. I am tempted to fly back east and go shopping!!!!!!! Ask jgoode, I have been b*tching in her ear all weekend, but only from away from home because the damn cell phone has NO SIGNAL at the apartment. ACK. Had I known that, it would have been a deal breaker. I used the phone from the apartment office so didn't think there would be an issue in the apartment. And the agent says "Oh yeah, only Verizon gets any kind of signal and that isn't consistent either". Buggers.

So if you don't hear from me or can't reach me, it isn't my fault! Use Skype....

And don't send me links to buy stuff from your sites This is stuff I need NOW, like a hair dryer and shower curtain hooks and chairs and something to sleep on that isn't a bed that will fit in the car cause I don't want to wait for delivery (hence Ikea for hours) and and and..... gawd, I didn't think I needed so much crap .... (Fighting the urge to go buy a new computer cause an apartment isn't a home without a full sized supercharged desktop with a twenty something inch flatscreen (got 2 of 'em in Rochester and DON'T want to put them on the moving truck... no one understands why... and my daughter doesn't want to give one of them up!!!)

lox
(no longer homeless i suppose, but unreachable and the laptop is on a chair!)

Oh yeah, the reasons I can't/shouldn't buy a new computer... I have the ones in Rochester, they just aren't HERE and if I spend the money on a computer, I don't have money for furniture and STUFF... Have you moved lately??? damn, stuff is EXPENSIVE.....

Does anyone know if those cell booster thingys really work? I may head out to a Radio Shack and see if that helps.... I don't talk to people much (shhhhhhhhhhhh, I can hear a couple people shouting that I'm lying) but when I need to talk to people or they need me, the darn phone needs to WORK.....

Bought ALL that in the last 3 days....Target, Costco and Bed, Bath and Beyond LOVE me....

Still looking for artwork,

I can help you with that

Honestly, I thought most of the stuff I could wait for to come from back east, but there is so much that I needed right now that I couldn't wait for... and the decisions about whether to bother moving some of the stuff from back east, like my sofa bed (hard to get through doors, decided to leave it) and my wonderful desk that I love.... it is too freaking big, would have to be dismantled and reassembled and it is easier and smarter to leave it behind It is NOT an easy desk to dismantle and reassemble, lol.

Anyway, will check into cell boosters, I am dying here not being able to call people and knowing my daughter can't reach me if she forgets to use Skype...

Oh, and for those of you that DO shop at Ikea, what is the most used bookcase set named? Hum??? I spent several hours and Ikea and every time I went into a new area, there was a bookcase or 3 or 5 named......

BILLY!!!!

Yup, I couldn't fit a full sized one in the car, but I *had* to bring one short one home with me..... rofl....

Had to chuckle about that one.... they are my favs, and NOT because of the name.... Off to put that together next, so far have assembled a desk and a chair futon, hopefully the Billy will go together easily and sit quietly behind the desk..... (running and ducking now.... )

When I lived in New Mexico we only had cell reception in one corner of our patio SOMETIMES! I tried the thingy that is on a piece of tape and you put it on the back of your cell phone and that barely was a noticable difference.

When I was researching it there were antennaes you could buy that mount on your roof or car that supposedly gave better reception but we moved to Ohio before I broke down and bought any of those.

There were quite a few different types. Don't know what kind off access you have to mounting things outside but might try looking into those.